Lee H. Katzin
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Lee H. Katzin (April 12, 1935 – October 30, 2002) was an American film director. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and became a TV director in the late 1960s for TV shows that included Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Police Story. He also directed the 1971 feature film Le Mans. Starting in 1969, he did an array of theatrical films starting with Heaven with a Gun and other films like The Break and the cult classic What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? In 1972, he directed the film The Salzburg Connection, which starred Barry Newman and Anna Karina. In 1975, he directed the launch episode "Breakaway", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series Space: 1999. He also directed the pilots for the television series Man from Atlantis and Spenser: For Hire. He was primarily known as a prolific episodic television director, and he worked on series such as MacGyver, Police Story, The Young Riders, and Mission Impossible.
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Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph (2026)
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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
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Death Ray 2000 (1981)
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
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Le Mans (1971)
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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
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Journey Through the Black Sun (1982)
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Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
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World Gone Wild (1987)
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Hoodwinked (1989)
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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
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Along Came a Spider (1970)
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Zuma Beach (1978)
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The Eagle and The Bear (1985)
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Voyage of the Yes (1973)
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Restraining Order (1999)
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The Salzburg Connection (1972)
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Sky Hei$t (1975)
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The Break (1995)
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The Last Survivors (1975)
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The Phynx (1970)
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The Stranger (1973)
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Mission: Impossible - The Slave (1967)
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Savages (1974)
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Space: 1999 (1975)
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The Quest (1976)
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Alien Attack (1980)
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Emergency Room (1983)
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The Neighborhood (1982)
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Ordeal (1973)
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Man from Atlantis (1977)
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Samurai (1979)
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Relentless (1977)
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Visions... (1972)
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Strange Homecoming (1974)
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